I might argue that Charlotte Proudman must have been in one of those top ten lists but she was excluded - maybe for good reason but who else was excluded?

So what do you have to do to get profile views;

Being famous obviously helps!

Laura Chetcuti isn’t famous and her posts are not very well read but she is very active and has 14,000 followers (presumably mostly connections

Ian Moyse (previous guest and LION) has a massive number of connections (33,772 followers) and came in the top ten technology list.

Bianca Miller - not especially well read but fairly active and has nearly 11,000 followers. She managed to get into the Leaders list alongside Richard Branson and David Cameron!

Question

is there a polite way to let people know that you are NOT an open networker / LION?Our marketing strategy has led me to be featured by LinkedIn as "someone you might be interested in following" as part of the on-boarding process of the new app, and this has increased my exposure hugely and I've gone from 3,000 followers (2,500 connections) to 16,000 followers in the last 2 months. Nice. But it also means I get invites from engineering graduates from every corner of the globe.... Can I stop that?

Answer = The best way to deal with this would be to prevent people from inviting you to connect, unless they have your email address.

Go to settings > Communications > ‘select who can send you invitations’

The new social network called beBee (awful name!) that practices ‘affinity networking’ as detailed in this post from the excellent John White.

Episode 100

I really want to do something different for our 100th episode, I am still open to suggestions but one I had recently was that someone (maybe a listener) could interview me! Any volunteers or suggestions as to who would be a good candidate.

I was interviewed this week for Motor Trader Radio. You can listen to the recording here

LinkedIn Publishing. What happens ‘post a post’!

Really interesting and revealing LinkedIn post from LinkedIn top publishing man Daniel Roth about what happens when you press ‘publish’ on your new LinkedIn post.

Key points for me are;

LinkedIn now accept that it’s OK to connect with someone you ‘want to interact with’ rather than insisting you must ‘know them well’.

A post always appears on the home page feed of ALL of your connections presumably at the time it is posted (timing is therefore very important).

An algorithm filters out suspected spam by looking for keywords associated to jobs or events. These posts do not trigger a notification.

Notifications are only posted to ‘strong connections’ determined by leveraging the connection strength score from the LinkedIn cloud service. Cloud service maintains connection relationships between members. This must be based on activities (profile views, messages, post/update/group interactions) and similarities (industry, company, groups etc).

Quoting your post totip@linkedinpulse on Twitter will increase your chances of getting into a channel.

There are now 66 Pulse channels including new country / location ones.

Winbusinessin Podcast

Next Tuesday’s new episode will be covering the 5 essential skills for creating great content;

Writing - People - Video - Audio - Visual

Why not subscribe to the show on iTunes or go to Winbusinessin to listen to the first 2 episodes?

Commentary

Are we lazy or just very reactive with LinkedIn?

Why are LinkedIn users so keen to use canned responses such as ‘great post’ or ‘Congrats on your anniversary’?

I think it looks terrible but that isn’t really my point, I’m more interested in why these messages seem to work so well. Any suggestions please leave a voicemail or email me at mark@linkedinformed.com

Suggested replies (such as I see when using Googles ‘Inbox’ app) are highly effective and useful but LinkedIn’s version seems very crude - yet clearly popular!

Finally I am still keen to gather more ideas for episode 100 (it’s fast approaching). Is there someone you would like me to interview? Perhaps a previous guest or someone who you have heard on another podcast.

The biggest story of the year involved Barrister Charlotte Proudman rebuking a senior solicitor for complimenting her on her LinkedIn profile picture. This story went global and is still being debated by many people today. <pic of Charlotte>

2015 was the year when ordinary LinkedIn users really took to publishing posts.

LinkedIn made a significant attempt to improve groups, upsetting many users, especially group managers in the process

Winbusinessin Podcast

We are now in season 2 of my other podcast which focusses on social selling and business development on LinkedIn. On Tuesday we will be releasing episode 3 which is an interview with Christoph Trappe, a storytelling expert as part of our focus on content marketing.

Why not subscribe to the show on iTunes or go to Winbusinessin to listen to the first 2 episodes?

Commentary

Here are 5 things you can do this year to make 2016 your best LinkedIn year ever!

Refresh your profile.

Perhaps now is a good time to get a new profile picture

Revamp your headline. The new mobile only initially shows the first 68 characters of your headline so consider updating it.

Update your summary to express your goals for 2016, this is a great way to show people that you are actively using LinkedIn.

Produce more content.

Commit to writing more content, either LinkedIn posts or blogs on your own website.